WELCOME TO TRINITY’S LAND END: TOWN OF MURDER & DECEIT

A Gypsy woman’s body is found in the quiet and respectable New England territory of Trinity’s Land End and no one cares. Patty Lowell is her name; a moniker that hides her indigenous roots. Born to a transient mother and an anonymous father Patty is remembered by the town folk as being something akin to human trash and few have even considered that the body lying before them caked in mud and debris is anything other than the outcome of inevitable circumstances of a once wayward teenager’s final call.

To understand Patty’s threat of dissidence and defiance in the face of her adversaries is to first understand how ideologically troublesome the idea of a seemingly unruly and nomadic life is to the townspeople of Trinity’s Land End. The mystery presents us with the history and mythology of the Rom or Romani people, what is commonly known as [Gypsy]. Much like ancient African folklore, Gypsy heritage has an all-encompassing oral tradition ripe with folktales about life, death, love and family. Equally plentiful are tales of oppression.

As a man born of Middle Eastern and Spanish-Indian heritage, Detective Litani provides us a natural instrument or stimulus to investigate Patty’s murder. He can empathize with her feelings of displacement but even more so, he finds the investigation into origins of the Gypsy populace in the small town a fascinating case study. Through his intensive probing he unlocks the hidden passions and secrets of a cherished community of old-world charm in the midst of a modern day maelstrom. They say every town has a history and Trinity’s Land End is no different; an idyllic maven built upon lies, ignorance, greed and xenophobia that has aided in the financial success of the town. It is through his gaze that we are given a close scrutiny of the collective unconscious of the town’s citizens.

Along with Mama Loas, the Griot, and oldest living ex-slave, descendant of Crispus Attucks; Rebecca Jamison, caretaker of the town’s much reviled orphanage; Tina Sycamore, a budding young filmmaker with a wanton nature, and Katarina, a romantic link from his past and professor of Gypsy culture, Detective Litani guides us through the mystery of Patty Lowell’s life and death. In the quest to give Patty Lowell her lost identity the mystery of her death cascades into a tale of desperation and despondency, and in the process unearths a larger than life figure as exemplified in the manner of Norman A Childress III, an industrialist who has cultivated a legion of followers to do his bidding, and whom uses the idolatry bestowed upon him by an otherwise puritanical citizenry to satisfy his salacious urges and predilections. Childress is an uncompromising man of the world and his love for Trinity’s Land End goes only so far as what the town can or will do for him, as he has done much financially for the town. He allows the townspeople to believe the relationship is one of mutual admiration while all the time draining their patience with demands for secrecy about his dubious underground lifestyle.

When Detective Litani comes face to face with this formidable foe he witnesses the true nature of power and entitlement, wrapped in the mind of a sociopath.